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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Of Noodges and Nukes by Cindy Sheehan

Of Noodges and Nukes

Cindy Sheehan

Noodge: (Urban dictionary):

This is my mother’s word, it means to be
nosey, pushy and a general pain in the ass. It sometimes means having an
attitude the size of Montana on your shoulders and projecting that all over the
place. Generally this is not a nice thing but can be used in a nice context.

Nuke: To attack with a nuclear weapon,
or to otherwise bring about widespread and utter destruction.

I’d like to thank the universal
goodness that former comedian cum death monger Roseanne Barr does not (I hope)
have access to nuclear weapons.

I say “former” comedian because
in the last few years Barr has taken a decidedly unfunny turn and outlook on
life.

After Barr accused Green Party
presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein of being a “Zionist” in the 2012 Green
Party primaries (which Stein won and Barr lost) and after running for president
on the ticket of the stridently antiwar Peace and Freedom Party, Barr has used
her Twitter account to become a mega-Zionist. I stopped following her after she
urged Israel to nuke Iran. As a human being, nothing to me is more monstrous.

Recently, the person who used
her acting skills to convince me and the Peace and Freedom Party that she was
also about peace tweeted this to her almost 300k followers on Twitter:

This tweet was apparently in
response to the vote to divest from Israeli investments of UC Davis. The tweet
is shocking in its callousness. I understand the tweet was left up for about 10
hours before some cooler head prevailed and it was removed, but as we can see,
nothing online ever really gets deleted.

As universally shocking as this
tweet is and how revealing it is of the character of the person who did tweet
it, I live about 20 miles from UC Davis. As most people over the age of 10
know, nuclear devastation is not confined to a very small geographic area. Personally,
it is very painful that Barr would love to see my family, including my five
grandchildren who also live this close to Davis, die a very torturous death
because we are not “Jews.”

On the other hand, what if she
tweeted this: “I hope all Gentiles leave UC Davis and then it gets nuked.” How
long do you think it would be before she was in Gitmo being treated as a
terrorist? As much as I deplore her actual tweet, I would deplore one that
wanted to incinerate Jews just as strongly.

As a member of the Peace and
Freedom Party (I want to iterate that I am NOT speaking in that capacity and
only speaking for myself) I would like to reaffirm OUR position against war and the
use of nuclear weapons.

The Peace and Freedom Party was
born out of the struggle against the Vietnam War and the government’s violent
repression of those protests. The Party has long been committed to its name:
Peace and Freedom. Until the Green Party got ballot access here in California,
we were the only party that offered legitimate opposition to the two parties
that will (and have) used nuclear weapons.

I have also received several
messages about my relationship to my former running mate: even though I saw the
writing on the wall while I was running against her and wrote this:

The few weeks that I was her
running mate were devastating for me. I had known Roseanne for years before
that star-crossed collaboration and I considered her a friend.

Roseanne was flawed, of course,
as are we all. But I saw a person who I truly believed was committed to the
same principles that I was, but Twitter is not Barr’s friend and she started to
tweet some things that were 180 degrees from the platform of the party and my
own personal platform, such as: “If people go on welfare, birth control should
be mandatory.”

Side note: I also disagreed
that our entire campaign should be by tweet, especially ones that were so
contrary to what we, as a party, stand for.

Then some people have defended
her most recent foray into outrageousness by saying exactly that, “She is
famous for saying outrageous things.” Well, so am I, but I only consider what I
say outrageous in the context of Imperial Capitalism like, “war of aggression
is always wrong.”

Common sense dictates that there
is a profound difference between what someone says in the heat of passion (and
obviously Roseanne is passionate in her hatred of non-Jews) and what one takes
the time to type out (probably via iPhone) in a carefully crafted tweet. I
cannot think of any clearer expression of hatred that is more evil than wishing
a large part of Northern California be destroyed or radiated all for one
principled vote.

P.T. Barnum once said, “Publicity
is not measured in content, but inches,” and Roseanne’s public persona has now
completely turned into a circus: the kind that abuses animals and is filled
with horrific clowns (oops, that’s all circuses).

The moral of this story is if a
party has “Peace” in its name and platform, let’s more carefully vet our next
POTUS pick to make sure that he/she would not use his/her power to push the
button of a deadly weapon of mass destruction.

2 comments:

Roseanne doesn't hate Non-Jews. That is an Unfair comments. She hates Anti-Semitism. She is concerned about Anti-Semitism on the Left even though she considers herself a Socialist and a Leftist. She thinks which I agree that the BDS Movement is besides from being Anti-Semetic- Hypocritical and Evil.

By the Way, at one time the Left Supported the State of Israel when it came into its Exisltence. The goverment or governments of Israel may not be perfect and may do some bad things at times, but that doensn't mean the Concept of a Jewish State for a very oppressed people is a bad thing. WE shouldnt throw out the Baby with the BAth Water

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